Oral history interview with Helen Humes, a jazz singer from Louisville, conducted on June 12, 1979 by Mary Bobo, for the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center. In this interview, Ms. Humes discusses her career, including her start in...

Interview with William J. Ealy, Louisville newspaperman and political activist. This interview was conducted on August 5 and 22, 1977 by Dwayne Cox of the University of Louisville Oral History Center. Mr. Ealy discusses his early life and education...

Leaf from a fifteenth century French antiphonary, representing a segment of text related to the Feast of the Crown of Thorns. Also called an antiphonal or antiphoner, an antiphonary collects portions of psalms and hymns sung during liturgies or...

Known as The Traipsin' Woman, Jean Thomas traveled the mountains of eastern Kentucky taking snapshot photographs of the mountain way of life, writing, and promoting mountain folkways. She was particularly interested in the music, crafts, and...

Musical band called The Rhythmeers on stage. Two rows of men sit on the stage behind musical stands that read "Rhythmeers." The men wear tuxedos and hold assorted brass instruments. To the left sits a man at a piano with a woman in a long dress...

Silhouette of a boy playing a horn underneath a tree framed by a decorative circular border. Below the border is an open book with musical notes on both pages. Below the book are two birds in profile with an oval panel containing the name "Nettie...

Planet [Earth] with an open book in front of it. Behind or above the planet is the sun and a planet with rings [possibly Saturn]. Musical notes are on the left page of the book, and an image is on the right. Above the design is the phrase "Ex...

Two boys (one in costume with suspenders) and a girl (costumed as a pioneer with a long dress and bonnet) play homemade musical instruments, including a banjo, gourd banjo, and sticks possibly used as percussion instruments, in front of a barn...

Two boys (one in costume with suspenders) and a girl (costumed as a pioneer with a long dress and bonnet) play homemade musical instruments, including a banjo, gourd banjo, and sticks possibly used as percussion instruments, next to a sign reading...

Two boys (one in costume with suspenders) and a girl (costumed as a pioneer with a long dress and bonnet) play homemade musical instruments, including a banjo, gourd banjo, and sticks possibly used as percussion instruments, next to a sign reading...

Five children play musical instruments outdoors. Three boys, wearing overalls, play stringed instruments (two banjos and a fiddle). A little girl, seated on the chair, and very little boy standing next to hear appear to be holding percussion...

Five children play musical instruments outdoors. Three boys, wearing overalls, play stringed instruments (two banjos and a fiddle). A little girl, seated on the chair, and very little boy standing next to hear appear to be holding percussion...

Three little boys wearing overalls play musical instruments outdoors. Two, standing, play banjos; the smallest boy, seated, appears to be playing a simple bowed instrument made of two sticks or corn stalks.

Three little boys wearing overalls play musical instruments outdoors. Two, standing, play banjos; the smallest boy, seated, appears to be bowing a small fiddle. A brick house with firewood piles is visible at right.

Original address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Demolished, 1952). Built as a vaudeville theater by the National Theater Company in 1913, the design came from the architectural workshop of Albert Kahn. The National Theater was sold within the year to the...

Address: 108 East Liberty Street. A run down, three-story brick building is sandwiched between two one-story buildings. The facade appears to be divided into two storefronts. One business was a restaurant and one bears a sign that says, "Barber...